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Sören Eliot Weber

I am primarily interested in how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and other soil biota interact with plants. Understanding the ecosystem-level consequences of these plant-microbe interactions will enable sustainable land and resource management to mitigate drivers of global change and biodiversity loss.

While I am a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ for methods, I have extensive experience using radio- and stable isotopes to track resource flow and conducting analysis and experimental design with linear mixed-effect models. I am currently adding process-based models to predict soil C and nutrient cycles from complex interactions between plants, microbes, and soil.

These are several of my favorite questions:

• How do eco-evolutionary dynamics of partner selection in the plant-AMF symbiosis generate patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning?

  • AMF diversity improves plant resource uptake across plant functional types

  • Plants receive more P when given ‘choice’ of AMF species

  • AMF acquire more C when given ‘choice’ of plant species (in prep.)

• How do soil biota and plants respond to (sometimes multiple) global change drivers?

  • AMF^{1, 2}

  • Prokaryotes and other fungi^{1, 2 3}

  • Plant-soil feedbacks¹

  • Fine-roots¹

• How do functional differences among mycorrhizal fungi and plants influence their interactions with each other and ecosystem processes?

  • AMF functional groups¹

  • Plant functional traits ^{1, 2, 3, 4}

  • Plant functional groups^1,2

Mycorrhizae ⋅ Global Change ⋅ Biogeochemistry